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  • New Release Tuesday

    Tim Challies’ The Next Story: Life and Faith After the Digital Explosion released today, and I’m excited to have time to read it. I read through the Introduction this morning and once time allows (i.e. this weekend), I’ll be digging into it further. I picked mine up on Kindle, but if you want a hard…

  • The Humiliation and Exaltation of Christ

    [This post is part of The Christian Faith series] Finally, we have reached something of a midway point in Michael Horton’s The Christian Faith. I plan to stretch out the posts on here a bit longer, and give shorter posts rather than the longer clusters we are having to do for class. Partially because I’m slammed with…

  • The Person of Christ

    [This post is part of The Christian Faith series] This chapter starts the 4th section of Michael Horton’s The Christian Faith titled, appropriately, God Who Rescues. It is the first of three chapters on Christology and Soteriology. As I read through the chapter, I didn’t find anything particularly egregious, which made me feel uncertain. I couldn’t tell if…

  • Upcoming Reviews

    Within the next week I should be able to deliver a review on What the Best College Teachers Do which I would highly recommend to you if you plan to teach in any venue consistently (i.e. if you’re a pastor, small group leader, Sunday School teacher, or aspiring professor) Courtesy of New Growth Press, I’m finishing up…

  • The Nature and Fall of Man

    [This post is part of The Christian Faith series] I skipped over chapters 10-11 of The Christian Faith. I might come back to them, but I don’t remember there being anything necessary to point out. Berkhof I think handles the material on providence and creation better than Horton, but Horton is at least a little more readable.…

  • Monergism eBooks

    If you happen to have a Kindle (or Nook,) or have the Kindle app on your iPhone or iPad, you might want to look into picking up one or more of these eBooks published by Monergism: The Work of the Trinity in Salvation The Sufficiency of Jesus Christ Alone: Classic Essays in the Doctrine of…

  • Your Clicks At Work

    Up to this point, I had not really earned any rewards for being a part of the blog programs I am, but finally the clicks for the Westminster Theological Seminary bookstore. So here’s what I got: The Priesthood of Christ: Its Necessity and Nature I’ve had my eye on this for a while and really enjoyed…

  • The Trinity (B)

    [This post is part of The Christian Faith series] Getting back to Horton’s chapter on the Trinity in The Christian Faith, I thought his guidelines offered under the third heading were interesting. I think I would tend to agree with the first one (all we say about persons in relation to the persons of the Godhead are…

  • The Trinity (A)

    [This post is part of The Christian Faith series] This chapter of Horton’s The Christian Faith finally seems to have some clear organization to it and covers the material fairly well. The last section on the filioque seems kind of tacked on at the end, but I’m not sure where it might have been better treated. Other…

  • Histories and Fallacies

    As mentioned yesterday, I thought Carl Trueman’s Histories and Fallacies: Problems Faced in the Writing of History deserves a bit of a fuller review. It’s a pretty easy read, and I had been waiting for some time for it to be available in the library. Anyone interested in history ought to read it, mainly because…